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Cape dress
A cape dress describes a woman's dress which combines features of the cape and the dress. Either a cape-like garment is attached to the dress, or otherwise integrated into its construction, or the dress and cape are made to co-ordinate in fabric and/or colour. Cape dresses were traditionally worn by (conservative) Mennonite women. Unlike the prayer (head) covering, the cape dress never became part of dress regulations.〔 Besides its historical associations with Mennonite dress, the cape dress has become part of fashion vocabulary.
== The cape dress and Mennonite women ==
In the nineteenth and beginning of the twentieth century the cape dress was worn by women from conservative Mennonite communities. The cape dress had a plain style and a piece of fabric covered the bodice. This piece of fabric had a square or V-shape form and de-emphasized the female form.〔 The women of the Holdeman Mennonite community in California wore a cape-dress that had a high neckline, loose bodice and fitted waist. The cape of the dress covered the shoulders and bust.〔Arthur, Linda B., 1997. "'Clothing is a Window to the Soul': The Social Control of Women in Mennonite Society". ''Journal of Mennonite Studies'' 15, p. 15〕 Because of religious reasons, no (or only minor) adornment of the dress was allowed.〔 The plainer the dress, the higher it was valued. For Mennonite community women’s clothing symbolized gender roles.〔 The dress showed women’s ‘submission to God, to men in general and their husband in particular’.〔 Besides that it was a statement of nonconformity to the world, especially against the rapid and dramatically changing fashion from the end of the nineteenth century onwards.〔
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